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Ok i think it will be the same painfull way for me, i'll try to pick up one with 8megs asap, thanks for all your explanations Ted!

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> Le 7 juin 2014 à 18:28, "Ted Summers djtbs1@... [emax]" <emax@yahoogroups.com> a écrit :
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> I have seen 2 stereo kit ever come up for sale in 8 years,,,,
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> And no memory kit available either.
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> I did what you are thinking-  I had a MONO unit I picked up not knowing the upgrades not available.
> I tried to find out if I could re-make STEREO- but only 2 people on group showed any interest.
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> And I would have to buy 10 STEREO chip at cost of $300+ before anything else- so I let the idea go.
> Then find that there are no RAM kits or way to upgrade RAM if you don't have the expansion boards, so had to drop that idea as well.
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> I found STEREO unit (but unknown memory size) on Craigslist and bought it for like $275…. it arrived and keyboard was destroyed BUT boards OK AND 8MB. :-)
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> I swap boards around and sold off my extra boards from MONO to make 1 STEREO 8MB unit in good keyboard case….
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> Total cost for me of two keyboard was $450 to get a good one…
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> That was my experience with it.
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> Regards,
> Ted
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> On Jun 7, 2014, at 2:38 AM, - LIFELIKE - lifelike@... [emax] wrote:
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> Thanks Ted, where can i get this stereo kit ?
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> Anyone here willing to sell one to me ?
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>> Le 7 juin 2014 à 08:32, Ted Summers djtbs1@... [emax] <emax@yahoogroups.com> a écrit :
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>> If you print out the upgrade instructions and take the kit to any decent electronics repair shop, they should be able to do it for you.
>> It takes me about 35 minutes to complete the modifications to the board, and another 10 minutes or so to test it out and verify it's working. So figure labor would likely be 1 hour - 1.5 hours at the shop rate.
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>> I expect you would probably have to take a SCSI drive with you so they could test it.... or if your local university has electronics courses, you might find a student that would be interested to do it for you as a project, since they gain practical experience...
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>> -Ted
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>>> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 11:24 PM, sweetsynthchuck@... [emax] <emax@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>>> buying the kit is simple finding someone that can install it is a different question.
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>>> any one in europe fit these kits?
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>>> if so much is the going rate?
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